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Post by graftak »

lapetitejort wrote: post #245
CuriouslyC wrote: post #202

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We do not negotiate with terrorists

I would think posters on HN would understand that a service costs money. Any time I can pay with money instead of with my sanity, I choose money.

It does not cost $14 a month per user to run yt, they inject their music service into the price even if people don't want or need google music. $5 would've been fine esp. considering they don't produce any of their content and even subscribed users see ads/promotions added by the creators.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Qhai »

vietvu wrote: post #60
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Anti ad block feature, not a bug I guess.

K

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Post by erremerre »

fuzztester wrote: post #175
erremerre wrote: post #106

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S10e was the peak of mobile design.

Why was it that?

Small form factor, powerful enough to keep working fine today (as long as not gaming), has DeX, has audio jack, physical fingerprint reader sideways, and samsung support (no glitches for important apps)

But it has some pretty big downsides, the battery is small, and it is rather bad at this point of life. The audiojack has been oversized by constant use and barely holds now the headphone, stuck in Android 12.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by chakintosh »

getwiththeprog wrote: post #273
chakintosh wrote: post #142

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The cognitive load is the worst part of ads for me. The amounts of ads that display an X to close the banner only for that X to be an actual link to another fkn ad or straight up opens a new tab. Not to mention the invisible divs spanning the entire page so wherever you click, it's gonna open a link which is most of time either porn, betting sites or aliexpress. This sh* should be illegal.

I dont press the x, I use uBlocks ZAP feature to close unwanted elements.

I used something similar on Firefox to block unwanted divs from Facebook and Reddit but now Safari is my main browser and I haven't come across an extension that does that.

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Post by account42 »

kibwen wrote: post #174
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #99

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> What a weird little “accident” that Chromium just moves forward and loads all the trackers, “oopsie”. I wonder which kind of promotion the engineer who made that “mistake” has been awarded. This "bug" is in Safari/Webkit too, stop it with the conspiracy theory.

You realize that Apple is ad company too, right? Just like every other shitty tech company these days. Apple generated $5 billion in ad revenue in 2022.

I think $5b is a gross underestimate.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...

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Post by avereveard »

avereveard wrote: post #86
PeterStuer wrote: post #43

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To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…

Well I use to have them on whitelist for all these reason, but a) lately the amount of ads has gotten crazy and b) a large amount of videos are fraudulently copyright striken and revenue stolen from creators https://www.streemtunes.com/post/how-did-pewdiepie-get-a-cop... I think it's egregious how YouTube treats content creators in general and how expect us to foot the content distribution bills in particular, especi…

Also wanted to add to my previous point, ads at the beginning of the video are absolutely obnoxious. Often there are English titled video in non English language showing up on Google, and you have to go trough the ads just to discover the video is not for you, and so off you go searching another video and consuming more ads, without getting anything in return.

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Post by s3p »

lapetitejort wrote: post #245
CuriouslyC wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do not negotiate with terrorists

I would think posters on HN would understand that a service costs money. Any time I can pay with money instead of with my sanity, I choose money.

I would have paid. But 14 per month??? Who do they think they are lmao. They can make money from unobtrusive ads but the moment they started injecting ads in the MIDDLE of videos I went straight to ad blocking. Also we're in the minority so they aren't losing that much revenue because of us.

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Post by TheCleric »

SmarsJerry wrote: post #226
bluish29 wrote: post #196

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From the app store ads mainly. Omitting this fact is dishonest at best.

I think they are requiring apps on their store use ads provided by their store as well though.

They are not. For example Unity has their own ad network for Unity made games to use (even on Apple devices).

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by devilsAdv0cate »

Justsignedup wrote: post #137
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

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